I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.

Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?

The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.

I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.

Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.

Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.

Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.

Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

You're under arrest for multiple counts of murder. You have the right to not much at all, really. Do you have anything to say in your defense?

great men take and overtake risk tactically

There is always a unique atmosphere in the car when you drive through the City with a dead body in the back.

As we review our worries, we should make it a habit each day to God, "what is it I should focus on today"?

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

You are not going to 'go forth.' You are going to take that damn hat off and you're going to get a job.

Now that everyone is reinventing and innovating, advantage goes to those who keep at it. We need to greet even success with humility.

Love is a labyrinth of misunderstandings whose way out doesn’t exist.

You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.

Even now, when I do a slide show of the Geek Squad story, the first slide is a photo of ramen noodles. Because for me, ramen noodles are the international symbol for struggle.